Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
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The wines chosen for the Main Street Feb. 15 Valentine's Wine and Chocolate tasting may be familiar to many of those attending but there are some lesser known vineyards represented, along with local wine makers. The familiar taste of cabs, chardonnays, sparkling wines, and other varietals come from domestic as well as foreign wine producers and have been chosen with an eye to affordable selections. The selection of wines also includes some you may not have tasted, but whose names you may recogni...
The Local Scene! Highlights From Around Town. If you have a picture to share with us for The Loop's 'The Local Scene' please email it to [email protected]...
Darlene is modeling the cutest sunglasses and Melissa and Doug's Beeposh stuffed animals: They've got style, they've got pizzazz, they've got snuggles to spare! Just arrived a warehouse full of new inventory yet to be unpacked. Be sure to visit them often....
Happy Valentines Day from all of us at Postal ASAP (even though we were a bit camera shy this edition)! Come in and find all kinds of fun stuff to make Valentines Day ~ or any day~ special for those special people in your life! If your love is long distance, you can count on our friendly, efficient staff to know your shipping options for on-time delivery. Check us out today! Near Baskin Robbins, and facing McDonald's©...
Living mortgage-free seems to be part of the American Dream. What homeowner hasn’t envisioned owning their home outright? Paying off your house is attainable over time, by taking a shorter term on your loan, or even by making extra principal payments monthly. What we’re talking about here is what to do if extra money becomes available as a windfall – an unexpected raise, a bonus, a tax refund, an inheritance. Should you extinguish the mortgage? Tread with caution… there are drawbacks you may...
Laura Burdick moved to Stallion Springs in August with her two children Luc,14, and Corinne,12. She is very specific when she says she moved from East Lancaster. She said she wanted a safer environment for herself and her children, so she put her house on the market and began searching for a new home. She considered the western areas of Lancaster since the children’s paternal grandparents lived there but the rural setting and seasonal changes of the mountains called to her. When she found a b...
Recently there was a change n the Galaxy with the designation M82. The designation means it was one of the galaxies that Messier cataloged. Which means that it is a kind of blurry thing that can be seen in the constellation Ursa Major (which has the Big Dipper in it), so this is an area of the sky that people look at a lot. The galaxy is a bright one. Well this year (2014) some amateur astronomers in Russia saw something different. It had a bright spot. It was a supernova. A group of students...
Local wine grape growers and vintners from around Tehachapi gathered together on January 8, 2014 to share a meal, a few laughs, exchange ideas, and most importantly imbibe in a bit of the fruits of their labors...literally. The First Annual Grape Growers Get Together was underway. Yes...First Annual! The festivities took place at Mike and Michele Dorner's home: the newest to jump into the wine tasting room pool. In addition to Triassic Legacy's new owners Jim and Sally Arnold, vineyard and...
Feb. 7, Friday evening from 5 to 8 p.m., Tehachapi Treasure Trove will again celebrate our First Friday FunFest. You're invited to come see our new look with displays full of art, crafts, collectables and art supplies. The featured artist for February will be Jim Dinsmore who creates a wonderful variety of objects out of wood ("Wood N Stuff"). In addition to his finished pieces, Jim will be armed with pieces in various stages of completion and ready to answer questions and explain his process....
Jeffrey Mensendiek will present "The Church in Japan – Witnessing to God's Saving Love in post-Fukushima Japan" on Friday, Feb. 7, from 5:30 - 6:30 p.m. at Tehachapi Community Congregational Church, 100 E. E St. Rev. Mensendiek is a missionary for the United Church of Christ and has served there for 22 years. He is now working as a chaplain at Kwansei Gakuin University and is speaking out about peace and justice concerns and promoting a culture of inclusion and tolerance. The presentation w...
Photographers, on your mark, get set, snap! TVAA is sponsoring the eighth annual photo contest this February. Who knows, you may get that once-in-a-lifetime shot and take home the Best of Show cash award. Gallery 'n' Gifts will be accepting photo submissions from Jan. 27 to Feb. 3. Submissions are $5 each and each entrant may submit up to seven photos. Photos will be exhibited in the Fine Arts Room at Gallery 'n' Gifts from Feb. 7 to 25. A special First Friday Artists Reception will be held...
Salt has been around literally for ages. One source stated that salt was being used as far back as 6,000 B.C. In ancient Rome it was used to pay the soldiers or pay for many other things. It is still around today. Salt can be very useful. In the right amounts, it can add flavor to an otherwise tasteless dish. Brine, made with a greater concentration of salt, is still part of the process to make pickles and sauerkraut. In jerky or salt pork, salt keeps the meat from spoiling. Teriyaki and soy sauces give flavor, make meats more tender and have...
The Federal Reserve has said it expects to begin raising its target rate sometime in 2014. Since bond prices fall when interest rates rise, it may be a good time to pay increased attention to any fixed-income investments you have Here are some factors to consider when you review your portfolio. Maturity dates and duration One way to address the threat of rising rates is through maturity dates. Long-term bonds may pay a higher coupon rate than short-term bonds, but when rates rise, long-term...
Hello, As you may know by now I’m the Pet Nanny and I have the absolute pleasure of sharing some of my dear fur babies stories. Today I want to introduce you to Biscuit. She is a gorgeous nine-year-old Labrador from champion bloodlines, she also happens to be blind, diabetic, and full of love. Along with her fur momma (AKA human), she lives with her fur siblings: Nestle, the Chocolate Wonder, of course, she’s a Lab too. There’s also Scout, who rules the roost; Willow, a rescued snowshoe - his last home truly was with a crazy cat hoarder; and Ru...
I wanted to share with you all what we think are the top five behavioral issues you can expect within the first month of fostering or adopting a rescued dog. All dogs are different but these issues are what we deal with most. We try in our foster homes to work on these things, but sometimes just a transfer to a new home can set off triggers that may have been unseen up until the dog becomes truly comfortable. Starting from the bottom, we'll work our way to the #1 issue. #5 – High excitement l...
From 1957 to 1963 (unfortunately, I am giving away my age) there was a game show on television (originally hosted by Johnny Carson and Ed McMahon). There were three couples on the show as contestants, Johnny Carson would ask a question of each couple, and the man would then decide whether to answer the question himself or “trust” the woman to do so. Each couple was awarded money for a correct answer, and the couple with the most money at the end of the show won. If the couples were tied in winnings, they were then asked a question involving a n...
Last week I wrote a column about the mines of Soledad Mountain from the perspective of Viola White Jennings, who with her family lived around that area. The article was from the collection of my mother, Marion Deaver. This week I will wrap up the remembrances of this lady. I concluded last week with Jennings and her sister avoiding snakes on that mountain. In all the years I have roamed around the deserts of East Kern, I have only happened upon a rattlesnake twice. Once however, was in January,...
At a recent City Council meeting, I asked our Interim Public Works Director, Jon Curry, to briefly address the Council about the current drought conditions and what it may mean for the City's water supply. Jon is our former Utility Manager and is a board member of the California Rural Water Association and he was well prepared to summarize the current and future water issues facing our City. I will do my best to summarize his presentation but I also want to share some of the exciting initiatives...
In order for Social Security to determine support for Parkinson’s disease, it must be severe enough to significantly limit one’s ability to perform basic work activities needed to do most jobs. For example: • Walking, standing, sitting, lifting, pushing, pulling, reaching, carrying or handling • Seeing, hearing and speaking • Understanding/carrying out and remembering simple instructions • Responding appropriately to supervision, co-workers and usual work situations • Dealing with changes in a...
Neighborhood Watch held its regular meeting on Monday, Jan. 20 in the Emergency Operations Center at the Stallion Administration Building with over 40 residents in attendance. Police Chief Mike Grant said, “The police department has had some challenges with staffing and it’s groups like this that help us in a serious manor to patrol the area and to be the eyes and ears in the community.” Grant reported, “Last month we had a significant number of people complaining about scams that are going on. Most of the scams are phishing scams that are goi...
It was Geoffrey Chaucer, famed poet of the Middle Ages who first associated Valentine’s Day with romantic love in his book Parlement of Foules in the year 1382 with a poem written to honor the engagement anniversary of King Richard II to Anne of Bohemia. It’s a bit ironic that Chaucer was instrumental in creating our modern Valentine’s tradition by writing of a fictional tradition, and don’t we all just love irony! Charles, Duke of Orleans is responsible for the oldest surviving Valenti...
This time of the year I think about when I was sixteen and was almost a victim of carbon monoxide poisoning . It was a chilly January day when everyone went to work leaving me, my younger sister, and my 18-month-old niece sound asleep. About three hours later I awoke to my niece screaming in anger. She wanted up and as I slowly got out of bed I realized I had a terrible pounding headache and I was nauseous. I woke up my sister, telling her to take care of our niece because I was sick. She got ou...
Some years ago, my longtime friend, Dick Johnson, when he was Editor of The Tehachapi News, called me and asked me to tell “Gracey,” my husband, to write up some of his Marine Corps experiences to print in the paper. My husband, Doyle, didn’t need a second invitation and for several years he would write something up every few weeks. I would edit them for spelling and punctuation flaws; something he didn’t like to bother with, and my old school friend, Dick, would print them. People seemed...
The Tehachapi Christian Arts Fellowship was put together last August to give Creative Christians a safe and encouraging place to, well, create. Since then we’ve all been busy and as a result, we have a number of projects humming along, some, or perhaps all, may benefit from your involvement. The first is a play. Two of our members, Gail Martin and Dorothy McReynolds, are in the final stages of scripting it. Valerie Provines will direct. To assure we’re on the right track, we’d like to put on a reader’s theater for an audience of about 20 of all...
We need to show resolve. We need to proclaim for change, so it goes each January. Never is our determination firmer than it is today. We will change...we will exercise more, we will eat less, we will be kind to others, and solve the worlds problems. Just kidding on the last one. In all likelihood all we can do is make a couple of lists and suffer in resoluteness for the next week or two before everything returns to normal. Here it is now, the year for us to make the modest demands of ourselves....
